USNS Vanguard (T-AG-194) Navy Patch Flags org/connect/blog/chief-curator-tells-story-behind-mayas-challenge-coin

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222nd Combat Aviation Battalion

NOTE: Never personally given any of the coins

This coin is 1 3/4 inches in diameter with epxy on both sides

They flew in two SOAR ("Nightstalkers") MH-47E Chinook helicopters

USNS Vanguard (T-AG-194) Navy Patch Flags org/connect/blog/chief-curator-tells-story-behind-mayas-challenge-coinThe USNS Vanguard (T AG 194) was a former World War II tanker (SS Mission San Fernando) converted into a vital U. S. Navy special mission ship, serving primarily as a mobile platform for testing submarine navigation systems (TRIDENT I II) after 1980, replacing the USS Compass Island. Originally a missile tracking ship (T AGM 19) for NASA (Apollo, Skylab) and the Eastern Range, it was reclassified in 1980, had its large antennas removed, and was later